u2fme2 said:
why bring this tread up again ?
Why not ? Its a perfectly reasonable discussion point, especially at the moment with us doing so well.
Personally I've always backed him, and I'm pretty sure that since day one he's been wanting to get us playing the way we are now. However he simply didn't have the players at the start, and its taken time to get them, or mould the ones we had into what they are now. The team he inherited was considerably flawed, for one the defence had had no decent coaching in 18 months, and it showed with how easily we conceded, this needed fixing immediately, and by and large he did that.
The biggest thing about this squad now is its flexibility, and this has taken time to create, and its whay we were often defensive last year in bigger games, plus he had a target last year of 4th or better, and that was a tough one, and it meant not losing in certain games.
Since day one though he has wanted players who can adapt in the game, we have defenders that can play midfield, fullbacks who can play as wingers, midfielders who can play holding or attacking, this is what makes us what we currently are.
Did I question things ? Yes of course, he annoyed the crap out of me at times last year, he changed the defence every week, and neither they nor Hart had confidence in each other, he's still doing this to a degree, but he's making less, more subtle changes at the moment.
The biggest single improvement though is Aguero for Tevez, this has made us a much better all round team because Aguero works for the team not himself. Tevez might be a fine player, but he doesn't play for the team, and while he carried us to 3rd last year with his goals, we are scoring more now, and they are coming from all over the team.
Now to sort out the champions league form, because that is his next big task, a win on Wednesday will go some way to doing that, but we need to be winning all our remaining games now imho.